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“Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with her dragon-disguised-as-a-dog best friend, righting wrongs and helping those in need. But when she stumbles into a town whose children are vanishing, and meets the haunted young sheriff trying to save them, what was a job becomes very personal. This is urban fantasy at its best, with all the magic and mayhem tied together with very human emotions, even when the characters aren't quite human.”

“In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.”

Years Land Native Fascinated Native American Indigenous Folklore Hispanic

Author:Terri Windling

“I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.”

Projects Unique Software Folklore

Author:Andy Hertzfeld

“The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.”

“I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world. The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil - it's really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries' folklore.”

World Different Country Stories School Culture Evil Objects Strange Innocent Around The World Theme Quests Timeless Folklore Different Countries Inanimate Objects Pretender

Author:Billy Boyd

“I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.”

Religious Class Students Advantage Tradition Colleagues Folklore Personal Knowledge

Author:Alan Dundes

“In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.”

Trying Shows Form Courses Students Majors Genre Minors Anthropology Folklore

Author:Alan Dundes

“If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.”

Ifs Kind Inspiration Running Pain Motivation Eternal Lifetime Myth Mythology Tales Tall Vitality Vigor Folklore Youthfulness Tall Tales

Author:Christopher McDougall

“What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.”

Giving Past Interesting Century Dialogue Storyteller Folklore

Author:Terri Windling

“If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Whole Funny Courses Students Research Series Library Including Graduates Graduation Publish Folklore Seminars Fieldwork Bibliography Library Research

Author:Alan Dundes

“Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.”

Source: The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon

“There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.”

Tree Rocks Stones Isolated Caves Scarce Folklore Lone Pine Trees

Book:Journey Through Europe

Source: Journey Through Europe

“When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.”

Known Written West East Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Easter Folklore

Author:Paul Henderson

“When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.”

Love Young Girl Passion Students College England British Ireland My Passion Folklore Celtic College Students Isle Celtic Music

Author:Terri Windling

“Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.”

Love Humans Heart Stories Age Childhood Creation Healthy Myth Tales Fantastic Fairy Legends Fairy Tale Marvelous Unreal Youngsters Folklore Grimm

Book:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.”

Home Humor Funny Political Left Humorous Canada Topics Folklore Canada Funny Canada Being Great Canadian History Beyond My Control

Author:Will Ferguson

“My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.”

Years Courses Identity Taught Academic Folklore

Author:Alan Dundes

“Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.”

Philosophy Culture Given Common Opinion Becoming Understood Economics Scientist Transformation Philosophical Notion Common Sense Phases Folklore Circulation Stationary Midway

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.”

Obsession Legends Urban Lifelong Folklore Urban Legends

Author:Eric Kripke

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